May 2026
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
8h 39m
English
book
Building Platforms That Scale: A Practical Guide to Composable Platform Engineering with Fractal Architecture
by Angelo Agatino Nicolosi
Overview
Accelerate delivery and reduce complexity by creating composable platforms that scale securely, empower teams, and adapt to change across cloud-native, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments
Enterprises today struggle to bridge the costly gap between fast-moving application development and the strict requirements of infrastructure operations. Tool sprawl, ad hoc Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and over-engineered Internal Developer Platforms often create more problems than they solve.
Building Platforms That Scale offers a new path. Grounded in Fractal Architecture, it introduces a practical model for platform engineering that applies principles from Domain-Driven Design (DDD), DevOps and SRE, and component-based software engineering to modern infrastructure as code.
Discover how to build cloud-native platforms that are modular, composable, and reusable. Platforms that evolve with your business, support event-driven architectures, and operate seamlessly across multi-cloud environments.
This book equips CTOs, platform engineers, and technology leaders with actionable frameworks to build platforms that drive velocity, compliance, and resilience.
Understand the foundations: Explore the core principles of Fractal Architecture, composability, and platform engineering in the context of cloud-native and multi-cloud systems
Build effective Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs): Design IDPs that give developers self-service, production-ready environments to deploy infrastructure securely and autonomously
Empower Ops Teams: Enable infrastructure and operations teams to create reusable blueprints, governed interfaces, and automated controls for consistent governance and security
Apply real-world lessons: Explore case studies of platform success and failure across industries including finance, retail, and software
Support Platform Teams: Define reusable templates and governance models that scale across business units and cloud providers
Embed day-2 operations: Bake monitoring, disaster recovery, compliance, and updates directly into your platforms design
Build platforms that scale securely, enable autonomy, and deliver lasting business impact, across any cloud.
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